Miss Begotten is one of my pet names for myself, for Southern Gothic reasons best kept to myself. Miss Begotten tries to speak plainly, but sometimes she tends to babble -- parenthetically, of course. It's never my intention to offend (and usually that's true - except on those [maybe not so] rare occasions when I mean it very friggin' much) but it sometimes happens, so if you're unusually easily offended...

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Sunday Soporific

I'm not sure whether this picture amuses me or frightens me.

Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again. Robert Frost said you could -- and that they have to take you in when you have to go there. I can't imagine why I would want to. It took me approximately the first one-third of my life to figure out how to get out of there.

They say you can't live on love, but who knows, maybe you can.

There's no written rule that says you can't have dessert first. I say go for it.

What I saw of Live Earth yesterday was great! Dave Matthews and Smashing Pumpkins, the Foo Fighters, the Black-Eyed Peas, Joss Stone, and KT Tunstall all did stupendous sets. I've never been much of a Bon Jovi fan, but he was very good as well. Linkin Park, Phil Collins, The Police, Keith Urban, Alicia Keys -- all fabulous. And I think I'm in love with the lead singers from AFI and Keane.

Okay, now that the top-of-my head stuff is out of the way, here's what I really wanted to talk about today: UFOs.

There's a documentary,"Out of the Blue," which takes on the unenviable task of attempting to weed out the wackos from credible witnesses who say they've seen what looked like alien spacecraft. Such witnesses include former President Carter, who said, "I saw one, but I don't know where. It just disappeared," and Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who said he saw "this typical saucer shape, double-cylindrical shape, metallic."

"Out of the Blue" begins with an oddly inexplicable but undeniable incident that occurred in March 1997, known as the "Phoenix Lights." Hundreds if not thousands of people, many of whom were simply out to view the Hale-Bopp comet, reported seeing an array of lights and an enormous delta-shaped craft in the skies over Phoenix. The first report of a strange flying object came at about 8:20 P.M. from a former police officer in Paulden, Arizona. Numerous similar reports of an object in the sky above the 20-mile route between Phoenix and Tempe came in over the next forty minutes or so.

"It's coming across the sky," said witness Tim Ley of Phoenix, "and as it's moving, it's blocking and unblocking the stars. There was actually a shape."

"It passed right in front of us. It was just about right above eye length," said Mike Fortson. "My estimate of the size of the craft from the nose as it passed us where we lived to the end of the left wing that passed in front of us was over 5,000 foot long."

There was such an uproar about what people described seeing that ABC News devoted a news segment to it in 1997. At the time, then Arizona Governor Fife Symington called a news conference, spoofing the whole thing by bringing an "alien" into the room.

What Symington failed to say at the time was that he also had seen the object over Phoenix. But in "Out of the Blue," he says that "we all experienced a very exciting sighting of some kind of a craft of unknown origin. Nobody's ever been able to explain it. And most of us feel that it was definitely, you know, of alien origin. Enormous. Inexplicable."

Symington is an Air Force veteran, and a pilot. When asked whether he was worried about speaking out, he said, "I know what I saw and what I believe and I'm not afraid to say it publicly. And I'm, I'm really not concerned about somebody's opinion about that, frankly."

Do I believe Earth is visited by UFOs? I don't disbelieve it because, after all, I believe that just about anything is possible. What do you think?

If you had any sense and you knew what life was like on earth would you come visiting?I don't think I would I would go off deep in space and look for somewhere people can live in peace and wouldn't so mess :-)

Sometimes I wonder if the universe wasn't designed in the same manner of an ant farm and for the same reasons. Having said that, if pure evolution is correct, there is no reason why other species shouldn't be out there.

There's a certain logic to the anthill theory, T. Whatever the blueprint is, I do believe there are other species out there. And some of them are probably not half as weird as some of the 2-legged species on Earth.

A man who used to be in the defence dpartment and whose job it was to investigate all reportings recently retired and said he had gone into the job very skeptical but was leaving it believing alien life was far more likely to exist than not.

Poor pups! How can people be so horrid? But I suppose it was standard practice to get rid of unwanted animals in that way not so long ago.

If you view the bible as a historical document, which it was, then it might shed some light. I seem to remember a passage about a "meeting of the worlds," but I no longer have a bible. We aren't the only creatures with brains capable of abstract thought. They're out there. The question is are they around here? Our own stealth planes, which get flown quite low and are hard to see even close, especially at night. Who, unfamiliar with one, would be able to tell a 50' wingspan from a 5000' span if they were surprised and could only see it momentarily?

Arte y Pico Award

About Me

You can call me "Serena" or SJ or you can just call me Sherry. If you call me anything else, I'll hear about it. Believe it. I write every now and then and I ... read. I love a good mystery/thriller. If it has me up late, double-checking the locks on the doors, it's hit the mark. I want... Well, I'll let you know when I know.
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